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Windows 10 is definitely better than Windows 8 and 8.1 in terms of usability. I find myself using my labtop a lot more after upgrade from the factory installed 8.0. Compared with Windows 7, however, I don’t see much difference and that is why I haven’t taken advantage of the free upgrade from Microsoft on my desktop. Read more...

As I mentioned earlier, the AngularJS is an amazing JavaScript framework. It separates the model from view, and really makes programming in JavaScript pleasant. We actually use it in our recently released product DoubleCloud vSearch. I have personally used it for almost one year now and like it a lot even though I am not yet an expert. Read more...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I started to play with Amazon Web Services, in particular its APIs. As part of the learning process, I tried to invoke different APIs to familiarize myself with their usages.

Most of the APIs worked as expected without much surprise until I called describeSnapshots() method to list all the volume snapshots under my account. Because I hadn’t created any snapshots, I did not expect to see any snapshot returned. But my code actually got me 10,933 volume snapshots. Read more...

I looked at Amazon Web Services SDK a while back and started to work with it recently. While searching it the Internet, I got all the results on the first two pages on Google pointing back to Amazon, which is great. After reading these documents, however, I got headaches. Why? For one thing, they are pretty long and sometimes run over different Web pages. Do you want to read for an hour to get your first program running? Or you are like me who would like to get my first program like Hello World to run in 5 minutes or even shorter. We should then read more if we don’t understand some parts. If you have gone through the Amazon documents, you’d know it’s impossible. Read more...

After leaving VMware and VCE, I founded DoubleCloud Inc. While working with many of my clients, we found it’s really a pain point for people to use vSphere Web Client which is quite slow and based on obsolete Flash technology. The old vSphere Client is a lot better in performance and usability, but VMware stopped upgrading it with new features. Read more...

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Me: Steve Jin, VMware vExpert who authored the VMware VI and vSphere SDK by Prentice Hall, and created the de factor open source vSphere Java API while working at VMware engineering. Companies like Cisco, EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, VMware, are among the users of the API and other tools I developed for their products, internal IT orchestration, and test automation.